About Bryan
Bryan Stanfill is a licensed mental health counselor working in Washington. He has 22 years of experience and uses straightforward talk and practical tools to help people when life feels overwhelming. He aims to make the first step easier and to help clients find a clearer path forward.
Bryan focuses on common, painful concerns like stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction. He also helps people struggling with intimacy, anger, sleep problems, ADHD, grief, and issues tied to identity and relationships.
Background and approach
He treats mood disorders and works with concerns related to family of origin, fatherhood, and life purpose. In sessions he uses approaches drawn from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Therapy. That means conversations are aimed at identifying unhelpful thoughts, building coping skills, and addressing the impact of past hurt.
He keeps language plain and practical and helps people try small changes between sessions. His background includes work in independent practice, schools, inpatient and residential settings, and community programs. That variety shaped a flexible style that fits different life situations.
Bryan aims to listen closely, offer clear suggestions, and collaborate on goals that matter to each person. He sees clients in Washington and offers online formats that make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Sessions are in English and can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Bryan draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice thoughts that worsen mood and then test new, more helpful ways of thinking. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress because it targets daily thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going.He also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach concrete skills for managing intense emotions and reducing impulsive reactions. DBT work typically focuses on building emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills for people who feel overwhelmed by strong feelings.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Bryan will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then suggest paths to try. He reviews progress and adjusts methods so the work stays useful and relevant.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make it easier to fit therapy into daily life. Video lets people read facial cues and hold longer conversations, phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options aim to provide flexibility while keeping therapeutic goals central.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Washington, Idaho
- Languages
- English